Religion will never show the way.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.

...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

SEEING BELIEVING what’s in front of you is not necessarily the entire story

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Where I'm at now is awesome. A different road might have led me to a different place, and I wouldn't be happy doing anything but music.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.